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Mary Gaitskill's Reading List

The author, most recently, of "The Mare" says Nabokov's witty "Letters to Véra" often made her laugh: "I especially liked . . . his enthusiastic recitations of what he'd had for dinner."

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By the Book: Mary Gaitskill (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-11-19).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Vladimir Nabokov · Buy on Amazon
"they are very funny, among other things. I especially liked his descriptions of animals and his enthusiastic recitations of what he'd had for dinner."
Cover of Agaat
Marlene van Niekerk · Buy on Amazon
"It describes the world of institutional racism and so has to describe a lot of brutality, mostly of an emotional variety. But it was the tender moments that made me tear up."
Orhan Pamuk · Buy on Amazon
"I'm not sure how to explain why except that the narrative treatment of Islamic fundamentalist characters is better than anything I've ever seen in a news analysis on the subject. It is also stylistically and mentally beautiful."
Cover of Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · Buy on Amazon
Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon

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